When looking for an open source and free learning management system, Claroline is a great place to start… We showed students and new users how to set it up with Apache2 webserver… this post shows you how to install it with Nginx instead….

Claroline is a free , easy and flexible learning management platform designed by educators and built on the LAMP / LEMP stack which allows users and educators to create educational communities and empower students to publish, work together while improving access to education and knowledge globally…

Some of its features include, course management, user and authentication and enrollment, allowing students to easily post to site, use hashtags, view and edit posts from any device and many more… It also supports WYSIWYG with strong privacy setings to create space for individuals to share personal thoughts with groups or other users…

Whether you are a learner or a trainer, you will be able to create innovative and meaningful content using Claroline…

To test Nginx setup, open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address and you should see Nginx default test page as shown below.. When you see that, then Nginx is working as expected..

http://localhost

Step 2: Install MariaDB Database Server

MariaDB database server is a great place to start when looking at open source database servers to use with Magento… To install MariaDB run the commands below…

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots..

Step 3: Restart Nginx

After installing PHP and related modules, all you have to do is restart Nginx to reload PHP configurations…

To restart Nginx, run the commands below

sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

Step 4: Create Claroline Database

Now that you’ve installed all the packages that are required for Claroline LMS to function, continue below to start configuring the servers. First run the commands below to create a blank Magento database.

Your server must provide the following libraries to enable all features of Claroline. The missing libraries shown in orange letters are optional, but some features of Claroline might be disabled if they are not installed. You can still install those libraries later on to enable the missing features.

When you’re ready, click Next

Type in the site name and the database connection info…

Claroline needs a single MySQL database, with a user that can connect to it. They recommend that this is a user you have created just for Claroline, rather than one you share with other applications. You should create your database before entering the details here. If you’re using a shared host, you may have an option called “MySQL Database Wizard” that will speed you through the process.